When it comes to Jiangnan University, familiar people know that this is a 211 school directly under the Ministry of Education.
However, those who are not familiar with Jiangnan University feel that it is a private school when listening to the name of the school.
This feeling is right, during the founding of New China, this school was indeed a private school.
Jiangnan University
Jiangnan University, located in Wuxi City, is a university directly under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, a national world-class discipline construction university, and a key construction university of "211 Project" and "985 Project Advantageous Discipline Innovation Platform".
The school covers an area of 3,250 acres and has a building area of 1.07 million square meters. There are 20,394 undergraduates, 9,600 doctoral and master's students, and 719 international students.
In the national ranking, Jiangnan University's best ranking is 74, and it is also relatively high among the 11 211 schools in Jiangsu Province. However, many people feel that the name of the school sounds like a private school, and everyone guessed correctly, before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Jiangnan University was indeed a private university.
Rong
The founder of the private school Jiangnan University is the Rong family represented by Rong Yiren.
The Rong family's hometown is in Rong Lane, Wuxi, located in the western suburbs of Wuxi City. Its ancestors planted rice and planted mulberry, and with loyalty and loyalty, they moved from Jinling in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, forming three natural villages of Shangrong, Zhongrong and Xiarong, and did not officially establish the town until the early years of the Republic of China.
The Rong family's origins in Wuxi begin with Rong Yiren's great-grandfather Rong Xi. He began to do long-distance trafficking in a small business, often driving small boats through Taihu Lake, Wusong River and other rivers to and from Shanghai. The property that passed to Rong Yiren's grandfather Rong Xitai was only a few old houses, but these primitive commercial activities injected the original commercial cells into the descendants of the Rong family.
More than 140 years ago, during the taiping army's war in southern Jiangsu, Rong Xitai's grandfather, grandmother, father, two uncles, aunts, cousins, and his own brothers were all killed. There is only one man left in the Rong family, and that is Rong Yiren's grandfather Rong Xitai. With the efforts of Rong Xitai's two sons, Rong Yiren's father Rong Desheng and uncle Rong Zongjing, the glory of the Rong family was created.
From 1919 to the founding of New China, Rongjia has successively opened Wuxi Public Welfare Industrial and Commercial Middle School, Shanghai China Textile Dyeing Engineering Supplementary School, Jiangnan University, Shanghai China Textile Dyeing College, etc., and at the same time added many professional systems such as flour, mechanical and electrical, chemical engineering, mathematics and physics, commerce, agriculture, etc., and trained more than 1,200 senior talents.
At that time, although Jiangnan University established by the Rong family was a private school, it was very famous and cultivated many talents, so that Wuxi embarked on a fast road of development.
However, in 1952, when the department was adjusted, the departments of the former private Jiangnan University were merged into Nanjing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Yangzhou and other universities. The departments of the private Jiangnan University were abolished and abolished.
After that, until 1985, Jiangnan University rushed out of the jianghu, and the original Wuxi University was renamed Jiangnan University.
It should be said that Jiangnan University is very promising, in January 2001, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, Wuxi Polytechnic University, Jiangnan College, Wuxi College of Education merged to form Jiangnan University.
Among the newly formed Jiangnan University, Wuxi Light Industry University is very famous, its predecessor is the Department of Food Industry of Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University), and its history can be traced back to the Sanjiang Normal School (founded in 1902 and renamed Liangjiang Normal School) founded in the early nineteenth century, which is the same origin as the eight universities of Nanjing University, Southeast University, Nanjing Normal University, Hohai University, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing University of Technology and Jiangsu University.
In 1952, the Department of Food Industry of Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) was established by the former Nanjing University, Fudan University, Wuhan University, Zhejiang University and the private Jiangnan University.
On August 18, 1958, the People's Committee of Jiangsu Province decided to move the Department of Food Industry of Nanjing Institute of Technology to the former site of the former East China Art College in Wuxi City (Sheqiao), named Wuxi Institute of Food Industry, later renamed Wuxi Institute of Light Industry, and finally renamed Wuxi University of Light Industry after merging other colleges and universities.
To this day, there are still many people who say that if several schools were formed and named China Light Industry University, they would make this school more famous. However, insiders said that the school leaders at that time also thought about this name, but finally gave up, why?
According to the relevant personnel, the head of the school at that time stayed in Beijing for many days and exchanged with the Rong family many times. After countless collisions, the school finally gave up the name of China Light Industry University and chose the name of Jiangnan University, which was originally founded by the Rong family. However, for the school, Jiangnan University entered the 211 Project, which is a very good return for all teachers and students.
Nowadays, after these years of development, Jiangnan University's advantageous disciplines and teaching level are getting higher and higher, and it is even higher than some 985 university rankings. 【Author:Daily Kanji】